In the last episode (May 20), Till Plewe said:
> My problem is essentially that freeing large numbers of small chunks
> of memory can be very slow. I have run into this problem twice so
> far.
Do you have a testcase? The attached program mallocs 1 million
128-byte blocks, then frees them. With MALLOC_OPTIONS set to jz (i.e.
no filling of freed memory), it takes .184 seconds to free them all.
With it set to J, it takes 1 second.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (909.96-MHz 686-class CPU)
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Dan Nelson
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#define NUM 1048576
#define SIZE 128
void *mypointers[NUM];
struct timeval elap;
struct rusage r_s, r_e;
int main(void)
{
int i;
printf("malloc:");
fflush(stdout);
for (i = 0; i < NUM; i++)
{
mypointers[i] = malloc(SIZE);
}
printf("done.\nfree:");
fflush(stdout);
getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &r_s);
for (i = 0; i < NUM; i++)
{
free(mypointers[i]);
}
getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &r_e);
timersub(&r_e.ru_utime, &r_s.ru_utime, &elap);
printf("done. %ld.%06ld\n", elap.tv_sec, elap.tv_usec);
return 0;
}
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